Interesting Finds: August 21, 2008 - [Final Cut]

Other stuff

• The Software Project Manager's Bridge to Agility, Clarke Ching - Clarke recommends a book and points at a free chapter of it.
• Growing Pains for India's Tech Industry, Know It All - points at a Wall Street Journal article titled "For India's Tech Titans, Growth Is Waning" , which looks good (but long).
• Rotor v2 book draft available, Ted Neward - Ted gives a detailed run down on what it has taken to get this version of the book 'published'.
• CSLA into the future, Rocky Lhatka - Rocky mentions the pain of maintaining the CSLA (and all its flavors) in C# and VB ... sounds like he is leaning towards phasing out one of the languages or looking for help to handle one.
• Support Visual Studio Test Runner, James Newkirk - reading the first paragraph made me smile - "... and would require Professional edition or higher".  Probably a good idea. 
• My (Web) Tools of the Trade, Mike Gunderloy - I always like these types of listings ... especially from people like Mike.  Nice to see what tools are out there (and with Mike's list - its a non-Microsoft type list).
• Verisign’s Personal Identity Portal Is Half Way To Password Bliss, Michael Arrington - small entry on Verisign's Personal Identity Portal, which seems to be a single sign on type application.  Interesting to me because I'm currently working on single sign-on at work.
• The Weekly Source Code 32- Atom, AtomPub and BlogSvc, an AtomPub Server in WCF, Scott Hanselman - seems like just yesterday I mentioned it would be nice if Scott looked at the BlogSvc ... good timing I guess.
• VB 2008 Language Deep Dive - Presentation Materials (Jonathan Aneja), VB Team - Some links to some great looking material here if you're into VB
• Did you know… You can debug an executable that isn’t a part of a Visual Studio project without using Tools – Attach to Process? - #296, Sara Ford ... I hope you guys know about this one ...

Web stuff

• Ra Ajax: Ajax for .NET and The lessons of CSS frameworks and querySelectorAll is coming fast, Dion Almaer - in case you didn't know - I like javascript ... which is often why I link to Dion's blog.  He finds some really good stuff (and usually its practical and useful).  This first entry has a few good links in it about writing ajax libraries.  The second one is about css frameworks - mostly about an article/entry by Eric Meyer.  The last one has to with performance of different javascript 'libraries'.
• Making creating DOM-based applications less of a hassle, Chris Heilmann - short entry about a javacript named ViewsHandler that he wrote.
• Caching Interview Questions Part 1, Shivprasad Koirala - some interesting trivia geared towards Asp.Net caching/state management.  Some are pretty detailed.

Database stuff

• SQL SERVER - Behind the Scene of SQL Server Activity of - Transaction Log - Shrinking Log, Pinal Dave - Entry that aggregates some pretty detailed information about some things to consider when backing up transactional logs and shrinking files.

Debugging stuff

• Easing The Pain Of WCF Debugging, Davy Brion - Tips on turning tracing on to help with wcf debugging.  Link to a cool looking tool called Service Tracer Viewer (SvcTraceViewer.exe).
• Debugging Silverlight applications with windbg and sos.dll, Tess - This entry is just what it sounds like.

Cloud Computing stuff

• Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - Bring Us Your Data and Amazon EBS - Tool and Library Support, AWS Blog - a couple of entries mentioning different tools that can be used with amazon's EBS and EC2, plus some code libraries.
• Some Thoughts on Amazon's Elastic Block Store, Dare Obsanjo

Career stuff

• The need and benefit of mentoring, Tim Stall - interesting article on mentoring from software engineer's point-of-view.
• The State of Telecommuting, Mike Gunderloy - some interesting stats on telecommuting ... is it on the rise.

Community stuff

• Fourth Ignite Boston Event on September 11, Chris Bowen - wish I could be there ...

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop - August 20, 2008, Alvin Ashcraft
• LINKBLOG for August 20, 2008, Arjan Zuidhof
• Link Listing - August 19, 2008 and Link Listing - August 20, 2008, Christopher Steen
• Links (8/20/2008), Steve Pietrek
• Everyman Links for August 20, 2008, Dave Burke
• The Morning Brew #163, Chris Alcock
• Double Shot #274, Mike Gunderloy

posted on Thursday, August 21, 2008 6:18 PM